I tend to find a lot of good information now via youtube and have recently noticed that collectors and researchers produce youtube videos as reference for themselves while adding more, and so on…Anyway, also try going to www.youtube.com and type in > vintage noritake, to see what might help within your research. And good luck!

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Click on Noritake on the left and it will take you to all that they know about and can date your item.

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I should put a pic in here … maybe tomorrow afternoon I’ll get to photographing this set, but it won’t be easy. As I said, there is service for 8.

Thank you one and all. It is hard to believe there were so many beautiful patterns. In all this time I have only seen one square salad plate with this pattern and the seller didn’t know anything about it that was helpful.

The info you’ve given me will help direct me to some concrete information. Thanks.

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Sorry I blasted you … didn’t mean to do that.

First, this looks like a beautiful set & I’d love to see more of it. You took great pictures.

BTW, I wonder if your set may be for chocolate, not coffee. I believe it depends on where the spout is attached to the body of the pot. What I’ve noticed is the spout of choc pots is usually closer to the top & coffee spouts closer to the bottom. Maybe someone else will comment on that.

I compared the backstamp in your pic with those pictured in my book called “Collector’s Encyclopedia of Early Noritake, Identification & Values” by Aimee Neff Alden, from 1995. On page 38 I found a b&w pic marked MM-26 that looks just like your backstamp & says "MM-26 Since it only says “Japan,” it probably was issued about 1918. All in red. MM-26A has, in addition, a rectangle all in gold. Most gold, cream and white patterns had backstamps executed in gold."

The book then has 4, sometimes 5, pics per page starting on pg 39-99 with about 75% of them in color. Almost all are plates, with an occational cup, creamer, or other piece. Because you did not post pics of any plates, it’s hard for me to figure out if your pattern is pictured in my book. It would be easier for me to compare plates to plates, although your pattern may not be in the book at all.

Let me know if you post more pics & I’ll compare them to those in my book.

If the mark were from 1918, shouldn’t it be marked Nippon?

Another site you can look up marks at is the Noritake Collectors Guild…

Heres a link to their backstamp identifications (you might have to copy/paste the link)…
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OOOPS…I stand corrected…the Guild site shows 1918..
Good site to bookmark